| Specialty | Number of applications | Number of direct entry posts | Competition ratio |
| Andrology | 35 | 2 | 17.5 |
| Audiology | 97 | 16 | 6.1 |
| Cancer Genomics | 339 | 19 | 17.8 |
| Cardiac Science | 542 | 41 | 13.2 |
| Clinical Biochemistry | 1223 | 23 | 53.2 |
| Clinical Bioinformatics Genomics | 261 | 17 | 15.4 |
| Clinical Informatics | 36 | 3 | 12.0 |
| Clinical Scientific Computing | 32 | 11 | 2.9 |
| Clinical Engineering | 170 | 6 | 28.3 |
| Clinical Immunology | 251 | 4 | 62.8 |
| Critical Care Science | 63 | 6 | 10.5 |
| Embryology | 420 | 15 | 28.0 |
| Gastrointestinal Physiology | 24 | 3 | 8.0 |
| Genomic Counselling | 382 | 24 | 15.9 |
| Genomics | 366 | 22 | 16.6 |
| Haematology and Transfusion Science | 563 | 5 | 112.6 |
| Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics | 100 | 9 | 11.1 |
| Histopathology | 196 | 3 | 65.3 |
| Imaging with non-ionising radiation | 28 | 4 | 7.0 |
| Medical Physics undefined | 395 | 35 | 11.3 |
| Microbiology | 1138 | 16 | 71.1 |
| Neurophysiology | 277 | 7 | 39.6 |
| Nuclear Medicine | 36 | 8 | 4.5 |
| Ophthalmic and Vision Sciences | 21 | 3 | 7.0 |
| Pharmaceutical Sciences | 254 | 12 | 21.2 |
| Radiation Safety and Diagnostic Radiology | 45 | 10 | 4.5 |
| Radiotherapy Physics | 130 | 25 | 5.2 |
| Reconstructive Science | 23 | 3 | 7.7 |
| Respiratory and Sleep Sciences | 98 | 17 | 5.8 |
| Urodynamic Science | 1 | 1 | 1.0 |
| Vascular Science | 58 | 14 | 4.1 |
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